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This is some I've thought about more lately. It's taboo to use the word "lie" and accuse people of lying... I am attempting to use it in my vocabulary more and more, when appropriate. Which is surprisingly often.

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I've been wondering for a while why society only has one word for all the different forms of lying. Lying by omission, lying intentionally, lying because you dont know, lying to save yourself, lying without thinking, lying for self benefit there are more... These should all get their own words so that we can always pinpoint exactly which version we think the other person did instead of having to shout "you lied!!111" and then nobody knows what on earth you are talking about.

I completely agree! Perhaps in lieu of words for these related but different concepts, we could use these full descriptions, as you wrote.

I've noticed the word "bullshit" is making a big comeback, which is encouraging to me. Because, good Lord, is there ever so much bullshit.

Oh that's a good one too!

You may be interested in https://mourner.github.io/bullshit.js/

You might enjoy this paper on how ChatGPT is Bullshit: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10676-024-09775-5

Thank you. Applying this applet to TFA honestly improves its accuracy tenfold:

  Bullshit interviewers are only the newest change to the hiring process that has been upended by the advanced bullshit. With HR teams dwindling and hiring managers bullshitted to bullshit thousands of applicants for a single role, they’re optimizing their jobs by using Bullshit to filter top applicants ...

Very appropriate as well because the machines are given a bunch of feed to digest multiple times and to spew it out the other end as a big steaming pile.

Although I don't think the comparison is 100% fair: at least you can get some tasty beef off of a bull.

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